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Having imbalance in the hormonal system is very common when you have endometriosis or other pelvic pain. In the yogic tradition the hormones are called the "Guardians of the soul". There are many ways to help your hormones to get into balance again. Doing yoga is one of them that I find very helpful. So I want to share this wonderful Meditation for balancing your hormones with you.Feeling pain, depressed or just weird?Recognize this? Yes, many of us do. And one reason can be that our hormones are not in a good balance. Having low or high levels of our sex hormones can make us feel anxious, having pain, depressed, tired, loss of libido, headaches and the list goes on and on. The thing is that the hormones are working together in our endocrine system. So for example if your cortisol goes up and stay up for a long time, your sex hormones get affected too.Can stress have anything to do with it?I believe that one of the most important thing to approach first, if you want to address your hormonal imbalances, is to lower your stress. I have written about it before in this blog post: Does stress affect you? For the the endocrine system to work in an optimal way, you need to activate the Parasympathetic Nervous System (relax & rest mode). When are relaxed you increase the gland activity. If you activate the Sympathetic nervouse system (fight and flight mode) you activate the stress hormones and your muscles get tensed. In this world we are in a constant flow of information, we can be reached 24/7 (and also reach out 24/7), we don´t take time to recover and just doing nothing and let our bodies and minds to be still and relaxed. We really need this. So much. Just to be still. Or as I heard from someone (can´t remember who right now) "Just sit down and shut up!" Go inwards, focusing on the breath can be a big help. We need to lower the cortisol to balance the other hormones. So my approach is to start there: Take care of your stress first. What are your stress factors in life? Write them down. Is there anything you can do to change them?A Meditation to Balance your HormonesOne way to lower stress is to do yoga. Breathing exercises, yoga poses, relaxations & meditations can be a big help to lower your stress. Not only to lower the stress, they can also help by focusing on specific yoga poses & breathing exercises that help to balance the hormones.I want to share a wonderful meditation that balances the hormones. Check out the video:

Instruction:

Sit in Easy pose with your legs crossed.

Sit with your spine erect and straight..

Bend your elbows and place your hands in front of your chest at heart level, 5 cm out from your chest, the palms facing the chest. The left hand closest to the chest and the right hand on top of the left hand. The tip of the thumbs touches eachother.

Focus on third eye-point.

Breathing pattern:

Inhale long and deeply and as you have inhaled you hold the breath in for 10 seconds.

Slowly exhale and as you have exhaled you hold the breath out for 10 seconds.

Inhale again and continue in this rythm for 3-7 minutes.

If you find it difficult to hold the breath for 10 seconds you can start with 5 seconds and increase over time.

This meditation is said to strengthens the endocrine system and the nervous system. This meditation creates a balance in your functions of your whole system.

Start with 3 minutes and increase the time over time.

Try this meditation for 21 days and feel how it feels. If you want to you can add 3 Yoga poses for stress before the meditationPlease share how it is working for you.

I have episodes of light head with nausea and palpitations due to hormonal imbalance and I tried this meditation and for the minutes following your video I did not feel any better but a few minutes later I did it again lying on my bed for about 3 minutes and started feeling like this: While breathing in and holding my breath I did not feel any more palpitations while breathing out and holding the breath I started feelings the palpitations on my sacral chakra and after a while I started feeling better. Thank you so much!
I am going to do it every day and will post the results.
Thanks again,

Flor

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Helen

16/8/2014 01:13:18 pm

Hi Flor.
That´s great! Yes, sometimes the positive effect doesn´t come immediately, you have to continue the practice, but glad you noticed pretty soon. Would love to hear how it is working for when you continue! xx /Helen

AboutHelen Kåselöv is a yoga teacher and yoga therapist and the founder of Healing from within with yoga & food (former Yoga for Endometriosis & Pelvic pain). Helen has a history of severe endometriosis and is today helping women with endometriosis, PCOS, uterine fibroids and other pelvic pain online, with yoga, nutrition and other lifestyle changes. Using yoga both as a tool in different kinds of healing programs, pain management, yoga has become the foundation in her work. “Yoga can help you in so many ways: Physically, mentally, spiritually and as a personal development tool.” ​